Archives: May 2003
Thu May 29, 2003
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Whoopie-Cushion Ring Tones Big Bizness | ![]() |
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Your mobile phone can now ring by making rude noises, talking like your favorite Star Wars character or piping a tune from a Santana song. And the companies that make these downloadable ring tones are doing quite well... Read More... [0] comments (47 views) | permalink |
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Overclocked Jesus Performs Miracles Faster | ![]() |
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A group of bored students in Chicago overclocked Jesus so that he now performs miracles nearly twice as fast as before. Goran Radovich and Trey Gafney managed to overclock Jesus and keep him stable at a record 3.69 GHz.... Read More... [0] comments (34 views) | permalink |
Tue May 27, 2003
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"Hello ?! God, Are You There?" | ![]() |
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Actually, if you call the number featured in the new movie, Bruce Almighty, the person who answers may not be very forgiving... Read More... [0] comments (34 views) | permalink |
Thu May 22, 2003
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Department Of Homeland Security Deputizes Real Mean Dog | ![]() |
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WASHINGTON, DC--Unveiling its newest weapon in the fight against terrorism Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced the deputization of Rufus, a big ol' mongrel ornery enough to make Al Qaeda think twice about carrying out an attack against the U.S. ... Read More... [0] comments (36 views) | permalink |
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MS Chat and the US Army | ![]() |
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Although a very interesting article on the logistics behind networking an entire battlefield - this bit worried me slightly:- "What's funny about using Microsoft Chat," he adds with a sly smile, "is that everybody has to choosean icon to represent themselves. Some of these guys haven't bothered, so the program assigns them one. We'll be in the middle of a battle and a bunch of field artillery colonels will come online in the form of these big-breasted blondes. We've got a few space aliens, too." Read More... [0] comments (48 views) | permalink |
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Armed Man Forces Mom to Write $50,000 Check | ![]() |
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Justin Goldstucker, 18, is accused of telling his mother: "You're going to write me a check for $50,000 and I'm not going to kill you." He pulled a gun and forced his parents into the kitchen, but during a struggle with his mother he dropped the weapon and she realized it was a fake gun. He then pulled a knife, and the mom wrote out a personal check for $50,000... Read More... [0] comments (33 views) | permalink |
Tue May 20, 2003
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Now THIS is a PRANK !!! | ![]() |
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Nearly two dozen high school seniors - many of them honor students - are in trouble for smearing horse manure, sardines and tuna fish over their school walls and doors. Read More... [0] comments (49 views) | permalink |
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Teen Charged With Feeding Cat to Gator | ![]() |
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The 14-year-old was arrested Friday on police charges of felony cruelty to animals and theft of the cat. He was also charged with feeding an alligator. Read More... [0] comments (49 views) | permalink |
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Pie in a Jar | ![]() |
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The Shallowing of American Taste | ![]() |
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First tastebuds and palates fall to McDonalds, now the eyes, ears, and minds fall to Wal-Mart, according to this NY Times article (free registration required)... "The growing clout of Wal-Mart and the other big discount chains ? they now often account for more than 50 percent of the sales of a best-selling album, more than 40 percent for a best-selling book, and more than 60 percent for a best-selling DVD -- has bent American popular culture toward the tastes of their relatively traditionalist customers...But with the chains' power has come criticism from authors, musicians and civil liberties groups who argue that the stores are in effect censoring and homogenizing popular culture. The discounters and price clubs typically carry an assortment of fewer than a thousand books, videos and albums, and they are far more ruthless than specialized stores about returning goods if they fail to meet a minimum threshold of weekly sales."Add in Clear Channel Radio and sanitized text books, and all I can say is that the internet has come along at the time it's needed. With the fingers of big commerce all over our culture, the web can serve to reverse an old mega-trend to "high-touch, high-tech." With Wal-Mart, et al, touching our minds, we need to resort to tech to add some depth and breath to their narrow and shallow offerings Read More... [0] comments (39 views) | permalink |
Thu May 15, 2003
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'A Modest Proposal' Prof Plans Probe of Earths Core | ![]() |
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A Caltech scientist's ambitious plan would blast a fissure to the center of the planet. Then a data-gathering device would ride in an envelope of molten iron, unraveling some of geology's most vexing mysteries along the way... Read More... [0] comments (42 views) | permalink |
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Might This be the Least Imaginative Senior Prank of the Season? | ![]() |
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Six guys drove tractors to school. Yawn... Read More... [0] comments (41 views) | permalink |
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Nine Georgia Players Ineligible for Selling Rings | ![]() |
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Nine Georgia football players, including six projected starters, have been declared ineligible for selling their 2002 SEC championship rings, Georgia athletics director Vince Dooley said Wednesday evening. Well, what do you expect ?!... Read More... [0] comments (43 views) | permalink |
Tue May 13, 2003
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Fizzer Worm Wallops World | ![]() |
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The virus affects computers running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. It doesn't affect Macs or Linux/Unix machines... Read More... [0] comments (43 views) | permalink |
Sat May 03, 2003
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Search for Klingon Interpreter Called Off | ![]() |
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County officials had previously said that no patient had ever come in speaking only Klingon, but that the county would pay a Klingon interpreter in the unlikely case one was actually needed... Read More... [0] comments (43 views) | permalink |
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Microsoft Makes Mice Smaller | ![]() |
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Microsoft is once again a step ahead in the race to discover and fulfil the needs of its customers. Their newest device, which they hope to release early this summer and discontinue by 2004, will hopefully replace the mouse or touchpad for laptop users. Read More... Read More... [0] comments (25 views) | permalink |
Thu May 01, 2003
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South Dakota Asked To Water North Dakota's Crops Over The Weekend | ![]() |
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BISMARCK, NDSeeking a neighborly favor Monday, North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven asked South Dakota to water his state's crops this upcoming weekend while he and the rest of North Dakota goes on vacation. "If you could just turn on the state's irrigation systems around noon every day for about an hour, that'd be great," Hoeven said. "Oh, and just grab the mail and the newspapers, too, if you don't mind." Hoeven also left South Dakota with the phone numbers of neighbor states Minnesota and Montana in the event of an emergency. Read More... [0] comments (30 views) | permalink |
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Grocery Shopper/Crook Picks Wrong Line | ![]() |
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Sav-A-Center cashier and crime victim Gennifer Robinson knew her customer was trying to cash a forged check. Robinson immediately recognized the distinctive Looney Tunes background from her own checkbook, which had been stolen from her car along with her purse five days earlier. On top of that: "She handed me my own driver's license," says Robinson... Read More... [0] comments (47 views) | permalink |
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Cyrano at Your Lovelorn Service | ![]() |
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When it comes to love letters, often what's intended to read like a Shakespearean sonnet comes off like a Viagra commercial. Now there are two websites that offer help to lovers struggling to put their feelings into words. Read More... [0] comments (36 views) | permalink |
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Wanna be a Joe Somebody ?! | ![]() |
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Are you being bullied at work? Would you like to fight back? Finally, a site "dedicated to advancing the understanding Read More... [0] comments (38 views) | permalink |
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Restaurant Patron Seeking Corroboration That Soda Is Not Diet | ![]() |
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Americus, GAWhile eating lunch at the The Station Monday, a suspicious Sandy McIlrath sought confirmation from her lunch companions that the beverage in her glass was regular Coke and not diet. "Does this taste like diet to you?" asked Sandy, who ordered a Diet Coke, before handing the drink to Crystal McChargue. "This tastes like regular to me." After passing the drink to two other people at the table for sampling, Sandy said she was "70 percent sure" the soda was regular and sent it back. Read More... [0] comments (33 views) | permalink |
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Mutating SARS Keeps Docs Sweating | ![]() |
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As researchers search for a vaccine or treatment for the SARS virus, they've discovered the virus' genome is changing rapidly. But they disagree about whether these mutations will make treating the disease easier or more difficult... Read More... [0] comments (33 views) | permalink |